Nationalism and the Israeli State

What are the origins of Israeli nationalism? What is the cultural logic behind national festivals, military parades and patriotic memorials? How does a country like Israel transform state-related public events into enactments of nationalism? In this book, Don Handelman considers the meaning of Holocaust and military memorialism in Israel. He investigates the role of holiday celebrations, especially how they affect young children first learning about their country. Analyzing state ceremonies such as Holocaust Remembrance Day for the war dead, and Independence Day, he notes the absence of minorities and examines their significance in the promotion of a national identity. He also looks at how Israel exports powerful symbols of statehood. Throughout, he unravels the meaning of national ritual and symbol in Israel today.

Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xiii
Preamble: Designs and Depositions
The Collapse of Versailles and the Nation-in-Arms	p. 3
Versailles Collapses, the State Ascends	p. 7
The Versailles Public Event	p. 7
The Nation-in-Arms, The Family-in-Arms	p. 12
The Event of Presentation	p. 16
Bureaucratic Logic	p. 19
The Monothetic Forming of Form	p. 20
Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Classification	p. 22
Bureaucratic Logic in the Science of Police	p. 28
Bureaucratic Logic and the State-Form	p. 33
The Bureaucratization of Politics in Jewish Palestine	p. 38
Making Jews National in their Citizenship	p. 43
Citizenship	p. 44
Shaping Nationality	p. 45
Who is a Jew?	p. 46
Majority and Minority	p. 48
Jewish Ethnicities, Jewish Majority, Palestinian Minority	p. 49
The National and Bureaucratic Logic in Early Schooling
Prologue	p. 55
Celebrations of the National: Holiday Occasions in Kindergartens	p. 61
Hanukkah: Hierarchy, Family, Collectivity	p. 64
Mother's Day: The Creation of Family and Intimacy	p. 68
Jerusalem Day: Statehood and the National	p. 71
Celebrating the National	p. 74
Celebrations of Bureaucratic Logic: Birthday Parties in Israeli Kindergartens	p. 77
A Kindergarten Birthday Celebration	p. 78
Individuation	p. 81
Reclassification by Age	p. 83
Temporal Continuity	p. 85
Age and Bureaucratic Logic	p. 87
The Fruition of the National and Bureaucratic Logic
Prologue	p. 93
Zionist Cosmologic: The Dating of Days, The Shaping of Space	p. 94
Opening Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Bureaucratic Logic and Aesthetics of National Mourning	p. 101
The Aesthetic Feel of Practice	p. 101
Bureaucratic Aesthetics in the Event of Presentation	p. 103
The Military Envelopment of the Memorial Gathering	p. 104
The Memorial Gathering	p. 107
A Memorial Gathering of the 1990s: Sequencing	p. 113
Performing Practices of Bureaucratic Logic	p. 116
Sequencing the National: Opening Remembrance Day and Independence Day	p. 119
Opening Remembrance Day, Enclosing the National	p. 119
Opening Independence Day, Opening the National (Somewhat)	p. 126
National Cosmology and the Encoding of Rhythmic Time	p. 134
The Holes of Absence
Prologue	p. 145
The Presence of Absence: The Memorialism of National Absence	p. 147
The Military Cemetery	p. 150
The Memorial Place	p. 153
The Holocaust Memorial	p. 158
The Presence of Absence: Counter Cases	p. 165
Memory, Metonymy, and Metaphor in National Memorialism	p. 167
Absence Rising: Telling Little Holocaust Stories, Shaping the National	p. 171
Absenting Presence	p. 176
Telling Stories	p. 182
Doing the Presence of Absence	p. 184
Stories and Audiences	p. 190
From Rising Absence to Redemptive Presence (and its Consequences)	p. 194
Epilogue: The Cyborg State	p. 201
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 265
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Nationalism and the Israeli State Bureaucratic Logic In Public Events

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